‘Zoho’ under the banner of ‘Made In India. Made for the World‘ has launched 4 new apps to enhance the mobile experience for their customers ranging from the single users to million dollar MNCs. The new product launched includes the Zoho AppCreator, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Writer and Gamescope. The apps have been launched at the time when the company celebrates it’s 20 years of presence in the industry competing with the international giants.

The man behind the team Sridhar Vembu, CEO, Zoho Group, who could inspire anyone attending his mind blowing presentations and witness his skills mentioned during the launch:

“From the operating system for businesses, we are moving on to become the operating system for work,” The wide range of Zoho’s product suite provides the ecosystem for people to accomplish any kind of work. We are now deepening our offerings by creating innovative software in diverse spheres. ”

Let’s get on to the apps one by one and see what they all have to offer.

Zoho AppCreator

That’s one of the software that all the bootstrap startups would be looking forward to. This hell of a system named AppCreator is a web-based software that allows businesses to create mobile apps for their needs without any coding experience in iOS or Android programming language. Following are some of its key features that make it worthy of the investment.

Simple creation: The system allows its users to create apps by using as simple functions as drag and drop to add fields. The users can set up workflows, schedules rules and also add actions for various gestures like swipes and long press. It makes the app creation as easy as using it.

App Sharing: The system allows the sharing of the app with colleagues with a single database for everyone to work with.

Turn offline data into an app: Users can turn their data into a cloud-based mobile app by simply uploading a spreadsheet which would be converted by Zoho AppCreator into a Mobile App with a single click.

Easily Connect to Cloud Apps: The software allows easy integration of the data from Zoho CRM, Salesforce and Zoho Creator in a single mobile App.

Apps for all platforms: The software creates Mobile Apps that are truly native in nature.

Pricing and Availability

Zoho AppCreator is just available on request for now and for more information you can go here.

Zoho Notebook

This is a solid note taking and productivity boosting app for the power users. One of the amazing features that this app carries is the repository of cover designs handcrafted and digitised from the bunch of designers that the company hires. Zoho will have distinguishing artwork in its design going forward. You can read about this initiative here. Below is a list of key features of the App.

Create notes: The app allows you to write text notes, checklist, capture a photo, record audio and that too in a single note card which can also be done in separate notes individually in dedicated notes.

Organize: The app allows it’s users to store their note cards in separate notebooks and within the book cards can be pinched together in a stack. You can also flip through for a quick view. It allows you to color code your cards.

Personalize: The integration of the artwork allows you to create custom covers for each notebook.

Cloud sync and integration: You can sync the notebooks across your all devices through cloud storage.

Pricing and Availability

The Zoho Notebook is one of my favourite apps and is available absolutely for free and has been launched only in India as of now. You can use the following links to download it from App store and Play Store.

Zoho Writer

Zoho Writer is a presentation from Zoho to go head on with the Microsoft word processor. It has been in existence for a long time now however, they have come up with a new version with improved collaboration and have eliminated clutter from the UI. Although the new version is only available for the existing customers only that will be made available shortly for all. Some of its features include the following (source: https://sileria.com/blog/best-mobile-app-development-company/):

Minimalistic UI: The redesigned app uses modern light and distraction-free UI> Offering you three modes to use including Compose (Used for writing, editing, and formatting), Review (for collaboration) and Distribute (for sharing and getting feedbacks from the peers).

Better collaboration controls: The app offers much better controls now, where users cna lock or hide particular sections of the content confidential information. It also offers users to pause and resume collaboration on a document.

New fonts and templates: It has added a set of 350+ fonts to make editing and formatting more fun and easy., It also has templates for resumes, invitations pre-loaded for the users to choose from.

Enhanced review features: This is a really cool feature that allows users to get direct links to the comments and accept all track changes in one click. It also allows users to segregate comments from authors and respond to comments via Email.

Real-time mobile collaboration: The app now supports real-time collaboration for all platforms.

Pricing and Availability

The app like the Notebooks is free for both the web and mobile version and can be downloaded from the following links from App Store and the Play Store.

Gamescope

Turning the monotonous work routines into fun, this project features activities like creating and completing tasks more engaging and exciting by allowing the employees to play friendly games with each other and get rewarded. This is available to only the paying customers as of now.

Below are some of its highlights:

Peer-to-peer games: It allows anyone to create a game and invite colleagues and not just the managers to play with wagers.

Immediate rewards: For every task created the employees earn reward points and they can also win trophies within the game while the consistent performers can also win badges.

Easy customization: The system allows its users to change conditions for winning trophies and badges and can also create new ones.

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